Killing the two sand snakes was the most satisfying thing I have seen in this show. That was so awesome. He avenged the prince of dorne. He could probably find a bunch of allies in dorne now that he has captured the traitor ellaria. Big euron fan now! I wonder if cersei will summon Martel loyalists to her aid now that ellaria has been captured! Huge
shareThe only thing I liked about him is the killing of the Sand Snakes. Honestly I'm still really pissed they killed off Doran and in such an offhand way too and left us with these traitors who are simply not on Doran's level.
I had hoped for an alliance between Doran and Dany against Cersei but instead we get those unbearable assassins instead.
The show really glossed over any repercussions of the sands murdering off dornish royalty. Convenient that ellaria never made it back to dorne to request dornish army to fight a war. They would have to explain why all of dorne would follow ellaria sand, and a dragon. When just recently they had a young, by all accounts sweet and fair, Lannister princess.
shareYeah, it was bizarre how they were even able to rule. What legitimacy did Ellaria, whose only connection to the Martells was being Oberyn's paramour (he couldn't even marry her because she's bastard-born), have to rule Dorne? What right did she have, who would follow her? She shouldn't have any support in the Dornish nobility, and she's not a soldier so she wouldn't have any support from the Dornish army that would allow her to rule just through force in the absence of a claim. Why didn't other Dornish nobles, even non-Martells, stand up to claim power in Doran's place? Why didn't anybody rebel against those who murdered their beloved prince? This was just skated over.
I love the TV series but I really don't like how it's handled Dorne. Dorne doesn't get the depth it got in the books, and the depth that the rest of Westeros gets in the show. The Ellaria storyline is ludicrous and I suspect that George R. R. Martin's reduced influence in the show is the main cause of it.